futurism – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:11:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 EVs could charge 500% faster in sub-freezing weather thanks to simple new manufacturing trick https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/evs-could-charge-500-faster-in-sub-freezing-weather-thanks-to-simple-new-manufacturing-trick https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/evs-could-charge-500-faster-in-sub-freezing-weather-thanks-to-simple-new-manufacturing-trick#respond Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:11:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/evs-could-charge-500-faster-in-sub-freezing-weather-thanks-to-simple-new-manufacturing-trick

New research shows how coating a battery with a razor-thin layer of lithium borate-carbonate can lead to a 500% boost in charging rates when temperatures fall below freezing.

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]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/evs-could-charge-500-faster-in-sub-freezing-weather-thanks-to-simple-new-manufacturing-trick/feed 0 How To Build A Fully Automated, Autonomous, AI-Powered Civilization | Mike Walsh | Futurist Speaker https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/how-to-build-a-fully-automated-autonomous-ai-powered-civilization-mike-walsh-futurist-speaker https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/how-to-build-a-fully-automated-autonomous-ai-powered-civilization-mike-walsh-futurist-speaker#respond Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:11:23 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/how-to-build-a-fully-automated-autonomous-ai-powered-civilization-mike-walsh-futurist-speaker

What will it take to build a fully automated, autonomous, AI-powered civilization? A big question — true — but arguably a more interesting and inspiring one than talking about the latest chatbot. As I discovered on a recent visit to Seoul, South Korea is already the most automated country on the planet, with 1 out of 10 workers already a robot. Could this city be a preview of how we will live in the near future? Watch this video to learn some key lessons I discovered, that may be valuable as we start to imagine what our world might look like in 2035 and beyond.

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]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/how-to-build-a-fully-automated-autonomous-ai-powered-civilization-mike-walsh-futurist-speaker/feed 0 Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/small-language-models-are-the-new-rage-researchers-say https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/small-language-models-are-the-new-rage-researchers-say#respond Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:20:55 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/small-language-models-are-the-new-rage-researchers-say

Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.

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Amazing track by electro-industrial american band Velvet Acid Christ (Bryan Erickson): http://www.velvetacidchrist.com

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]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/ghost-in-the-circuit/feed 0 Galactic Beacons: Alien Signals Across Space And Time https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/galactic-beacons-alien-signals-across-space-and-time https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/galactic-beacons-alien-signals-across-space-and-time#respond Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:16:49 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/galactic-beacons-alien-signals-across-space-and-time

It can be hard to hear a signal 100 miles away—so what does it take to build a beacon loud enough to be heard 100,000 light years away? In this episode, we explore galactic beacons: powerful transmissions that may teach, warn, or outlast the minds that made them.

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]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/galactic-beacons-alien-signals-across-space-and-time/feed 0 Scientists use light to capture elusive electrical double layers https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/scientists-use-light-to-capture-elusive-electrical-double-layers https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/scientists-use-light-to-capture-elusive-electrical-double-layers#respond Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:07:32 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/scientists-use-light-to-capture-elusive-electrical-double-layers

Researchers have developed a novel optical technique to observe the incredibly fast formation of electrical double layers (EDLs) in liquids.

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]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/scientists-use-light-to-capture-elusive-electrical-double-layers/feed 0 Caral burial unearthed at Áspero: Elite woman found remarkably preserved https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/caral-burial-unearthed-at-aspero-elite-woman-found-remarkably-preserved https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/caral-burial-unearthed-at-aspero-elite-woman-found-remarkably-preserved#respond Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:03:21 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/caral-burial-unearthed-at-aspero-elite-woman-found-remarkably-preserved

Archaeologists from the Caral Archaeological Zone (ZAC), led by Dr. Ruth Shady Solís from the Ministry of Culture, have discovered a well-preserved burial at the Áspero archaeological site in Barranca Province, Peru.

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My 4th Video in my Future Series, This depicts the human colonization of other planets.#lifeinthefuture #future

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]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/life-in-the-future-year-3500/feed 0 “Please Don’t Try to Print It” : This Developer Created a PDF Bigger Than the Entire Universe https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/please-dont-try-to-print-it-this-developer-created-a-pdf-bigger-than-the-entire-universe https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/please-dont-try-to-print-it-this-developer-created-a-pdf-bigger-than-the-entire-universe#respond Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:09:50 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/please-dont-try-to-print-it-this-developer-created-a-pdf-bigger-than-the-entire-universe

A developer has created a PDF so massive that it’s larger than the entire observable universe. Think you’ve seen big files?

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]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/please-dont-try-to-print-it-this-developer-created-a-pdf-bigger-than-the-entire-universe/feed 0 Trees might not be acting in the way we thought — this forest fitted with pipes can tell us why https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/trees-might-not-be-acting-in-the-way-we-thought-this-forest-fitted-with-pipes-can-tell-us-why https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/trees-might-not-be-acting-in-the-way-we-thought-this-forest-fitted-with-pipes-can-tell-us-why#respond Sat, 26 Apr 2025 11:03:00 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/trees-might-not-be-acting-in-the-way-we-thought-this-forest-fitted-with-pipes-can-tell-us-why

By simulating the future atmosphere, scientists hope to understand whether trees will continue to act as the lungs of the planet.

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